Medium updated its privacy policy on June 19, 2026 to specify that vendors and service providers may receive personal information including content you submitted or posted, and to clarify that data sharing extends to training, testing, and improving machine learning models. The policy also added an explicit statement that Medium and these third parties may scan, analyze, and review your content, messages, AI interactions, and associated metadata. This expands the stated scope of data sharing beyond infrastructure and service support to include AI model development.
Consumers: The policy now tells you that your content and messages may be analyzed by third-party vendors to train AI models, which was not explicitly stated before.
Data controllers: If your organization uses Medium to manage customer or user data, you may need to update your privacy documentation and vendor contracts to account for this AI training use.
The updated policy states that Medium and its vendors may scan, analyze, and review your content, messages, AI interactions, and associated metadata. Data sharing now explicitly includes information you submitted or posted through the service, extending beyond infrastructure support to machine learning model training and improvement. The policy does not indicate an opt-out mechanism or granular user control over this specific use of content.
Across all monitored documents, Medium has made 2 significant changes.
2 of Medium's significant changes have been classified as negative for consumers.
Vendors may now scan, analyze, and review user content, messages, AI interactions, and metadata to train, test, and improve machine learning models and algorithms.
Data sharing now explicitly includes information you submitted or posted through Medium, expanding beyond infrastructure-only purposes.
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Medium expanded its vendor data-sharing provision to explicitly include personal information submitted or posted through the service, and added authorization for vendors to scan and analyze user content, messages, AI interactions, and metadata for machine …
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